Scholarship
Mukhyamantri Jankalyan (Shiksha Protsahan Yojna)(MJSPY)
Overview
About MJSPY
The qualifying document for the Mukhyamantri Jankalyan (Shiksha Protsahan) Yojana is neither a marksheet nor an income certificate. It is the registration number the Madhya Pradesh labour department issued to a mother or father as an unorganised worker, and the scheme's own introduction note opens with exactly that condition. What follows is not a monthly stipend. The state settles a fee bill for a fixed list of courses, and for a student at a government institution the money never passes through their hands at all.
Madhya Pradesh runs the scheme through its Technical Education, Skill Development and Employment Department, which the portal's own question-and-answer document names as the nodal department, and the Directorate of Technical Education in Bhopal built and operates the workflow behind it, as recorded in the standard operating procedure it published for the scheme.
Caste category has no bearing on the claim. The portal FAQ says students of every category can take the benefit, and that the scheme has applied from session 2018-19 onwards.
One practical thing has changed since most write-ups of this scheme were written, and the record below still shows the older version of it. Applications were once filed at scholarshipportal.mp.nic.in, the address the record and the department's own older answers both give. That domain no longer resolves at all. The scheme now runs entirely from the MMJKY scheme portal on medhavikalyan.mp.gov.in, which holds the notices, the rule documents, the course and institution lists, the login and a public counter of applications received and sanctioned. Treat the old address in the record as history, not as a working link.
Who runs it
Provider
Madhya Pradesh State Government
State / UT Government
Technical Education and Man Power Planning Department
At a glance
Key details
| Level | State |
| Scheme type | Not published by the source |
| Category | Education & Learning |
| Beneficiaries | Individual |
| Benefit type | In Kind |
| Application mode | Online |
| Direct Benefit Transfer | Not published by the source |
| Tags | Financial Assistance, Students, Higher Education |
| Source record | myScheme, 2026-07-08official-site· 2026-07-08 |
Calendar
Important dates
The date that closes this scheme to you is not an admission-season deadline. It falls when the department decides to shut a session that is already old, and when it falls it tends to fall once and briefly.
The standing notice on the scheme home page shows the pattern at full strength. Students who were registered on the portal but had never filed a fresh application for session 2024-25 were given three days, 26.11.2025 to 28.11.2025, and told that no fresh application for that session would be accepted after them. The same three days served as the last opportunity for anyone from session 2021-22 or session 2022-23 who had never filed a renewal. Admissions for 2024-25 had been made more than a year before that notice went up.
Set against that, the myScheme record leaves the closing date blank. It is an honest blank for a scheme nobody has wound up, and a useless one for a student working out whether this year's door is still open, because each session gets a short window of its own and then shuts for good.
Two things follow for a student. Filing inside the window is only half of it, because the same notice tells students to get the institute to verify and approve the application before the closing date, and asks institutions separately not to let applications sit pending with them. And since no month recurs, the portal's notice panel is the only place the next window is going to appear.
| Cycle | Stage | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Current | Applications open | 2018-09-01 |
Who can apply
Eligibility criteria
Two conditions decide whether a family is in at all: the applicant must be a permanent resident of Madhya Pradesh, and the mother or father must hold an unorganised worker registration with the state labour department. Everything after that is a question of which course the student got into.
The portal FAQ settles three cases that trip families up. A student who cleared Class 12 as a private, self-study candidate is covered. Students past the first year of a course are covered on the same terms as first-years, not just the incoming batch. And a registration made in 2018 or later carries the benefit from the year of admission forward, with no claim on years of study that ran before session 2018-19.
For engineering, medicine and law the entrance result is part of the eligibility test rather than a ranking device, and the scheme note spells out which admissions count: JEE Main for engineering, NEET for MBBS and BDS, and CLAT or an institution's own test for law at a National Law University or Delhi University.
Those two entrance routes carry a timing condition the course list leaves out. The portal FAQ answers both the JEE Main and the CLAT question the same way: the benefit is taken in the year the student passes that examination, with every other eligibility condition still to be satisfied.
| The applicant must be a permanent resident of Madhya Pradesh. | |
| The applicant's mother/father should be registered as an unorganized worker in the Labor Department of the Madhya Pradesh Government. | |
| The student will be given the benefit of this scheme on admission to the Diploma/Degree and Certificate courses in Government Medical College and Paramedical Science conducted under it. | |
| All the government and grant-aided colleges and universities of the state government, in which all graduates and postgraduate courses under the State Higher Education Department, all diploma courses and ITIs conducted in polytechnic colleges, will be given the benefit of this scheme to the students. | |
| The benefit of this scheme will be given even after getting admission in the graduation program and integrated post-graduation program conducted in all university institutions of the state government or government of India. | |
| For engineering, in the case of fees coming under 1.5 lakh in JEE Mains, full fees will be given upon taking admission in government engineering college and 1.5 lakh rupees and actual tuition fee, whichever is less, will be provided upon admission in aided college. | |
| If students have taken admission through the NEET entrance exam for medical studies in MBBS/VIDEO medical and dental college of Central or State Government or MBBS course of private medical located in the college, then the students are eligible to get the benefit of this scheme. are eligible. | |
| The benefit of this scheme will also be given on getting admission to National Law University or Delhi University through the Common Law Admission Test for the study of law and the examination conducted by itself. |
Who cannot apply
Exclusions
The scheme note lists what is covered. The portal FAQ is where the boundaries are drawn, and they are drawn hard.
| What falls outside the scheme | The rule as the department states it |
|---|---|
| Private dental colleges | BDS qualifies only at a government dental college in Madhya Pradesh |
| Nursing at a private college | Not covered |
| Other private-sector courses | In the private sector only BE and BTech at engineering colleges and MBBS at medical colleges qualify |
| Private universities and colleges for ordinary degree courses | The scheme applies to government and grant-aided institutions, not to the private sector at large |
| An engineering admission above the rank bar | A JEE Main rank outside 1,50,000 ends the engineering claim |
| Mess fee and caution money | Never part of the payable fee |
| Study years that ran before session 2018-19 | Not payable |
Continuation
Renewal conditions
A second-year claim is the first-year claim filed over again, in full. Under the standard operating procedure, the student logs in with the same user ID each subsequent year, completes the application afresh, and carries the printed copy and the supporting documents back to the institute exactly as before. The portal FAQ adds the condition that keeps a claim alive: the course has to be finished inside its prescribed duration.
Renewal windows have not always been treated the way fresh applications are. The notice standing on the scheme home page reopened the portal for students of session 2021-22 and session 2022-23 who had never filed a renewal, and called it a last opportunity, so a missed year is worth chasing rather than writing off.
What you get
Award & benefits
| Course group | What the state pays |
|---|---|
| All UG courses at Madhya Pradesh government and grant-aided colleges and universities, PG courses under the higher education department, every polytechnic diploma and the state ITIs | Admission fee and actual fee as fixed by the regulator |
| Engineering with a JEE Main rank within 1,50,000 | Full fee at a government engineering college; at a non-government college the actual tuition fee subject to a ceiling of Rs 1.5 lakh |
| MBBS or BDS through NEET at a central or state government college, and MBBS at a private medical college located in Madhya Pradesh | Fee borne by the state |
| Law at a National Law University or Delhi University, entered through CLAT or the institution's own examination | Fee borne by the state |
| Graduation, integrated post-graduation and dual degree programmes, the dual degree taking in a bachelor's degree alongside the master's, at Government of India and state government universities and institutions | Fee borne by the state, with the other eligibility conditions still to be met |
| Diploma, degree and certificate courses in paramedical science run under a government medical college | Fee borne by the state |
Only one definition of fee counts. The scheme note restricts payment to the admission fee and the actual fee fixed by the Fee Regulatory Committee, the Madhya Pradesh private university regulatory body or the government, with mess charges and caution money struck out of the calculation.
Where the money lands depends on who runs the college, and it decides whether the student needs a bank account in this at all. A government institution registers its own account with the portal and is paid the fee directly; if the student had already paid it, the standard operating procedure makes the institution refund them. A student admitted to a private institution is paid into their own Aadhaar-linked account instead.
Grant-aided colleges are the one place the department does not speak with a single voice. The portal FAQ answers twice that the Aadhaar-linked account is needed only where the admission is to a private institution, while the document list in the same file asks for one from private and grant-aided admissions alike. An aided-college student is better off having the account open and seeded than assuming it will never be drawn on.
- The tuition fees for all such students on admission to graduate, polytechnic, diploma and ITI courses will be borne by the state government.
- For all these courses, the admission fee and actual fee will also be paid by the government as an expenditure.
- Mess charges and caution money charges are not included in this.
- Only that fee will be included under this scheme, which has been determined by the Regulatory Committee or Madhya Pradesh Private University Regulatory Commission and the State Government of India.
- The students of the state will be able to get education.
- Students will not have to face any financial crunch to get an education.
- Reducing the unemployment rate of the state.
- The standard of living of the citizens of the state will also improve.
What to prepare
Documents required
The parent's unorganised worker registration certificate or card is the document the whole claim rests on. Alongside it the portal FAQ lists the Class 10 marksheet, the marksheet of the examination qualifying the student for the course, the entrance examination marksheet where one applies, the fee particulars and receipt with mess fee and caution money excluded, the Aadhaar number, and an Aadhaar-linked bank account for admissions at private or aided institutions.
Registration adds a requirement no document list mentions. Samagra has sat in the registration profile since the standard operating procedure was drafted, but the current registration screen has turned it into a precondition: eKYC has to be complete in Samagra before an application can be made at all. The same screen asks for a ten-digit active mobile number, which is the number the portal's alerts will go to.
Step by step
How to apply
The form is reached only through a portal account, and the registration screen is blunt about not opening a second one. A student who already holds a scholarship portal user ID chooses Existing and enters that applicant ID with the date of birth. A first-time applicant chooses New, enters the Samagra ID and builds the account from there.
The application that follows is half online and half over a counter. The standard operating procedure has the student fill the form, upload the photograph, marksheets and fee receipt, verify the entries, lock the form and print it, then submit that printed copy with the supporting documents at the institute, in the first year and again in every later year. The institute stamps a receipt on the physical copy, and the identifier printed on the form is what links the paper back to the online record.
Checking the status is where the live portal parts company with every older account of this scheme, the record below included. The status link on the scheme home page hands the applicant to the portal login, not to the open application-ID lookup the old portal offered, so tracking now happens inside the student's own account. Waiting is not entirely passive, though: the standard operating procedure commits the portal to an SMS at every stage of processing and to a recorded voice call to the registered number playing back the action taken. For the queue as a whole rather than one file in it, the department keeps a public counter of applications received, recommended for sanction and sanctioned, with the amount sanctioned against them, on its MMJKY application statistics page.
How winners are picked
Selection process
There is no merit list to place on and no fixed number of awards to fall outside of. An application either matches the scheme's definition or it does not, and everything that happens to it afterwards is verification handed down a chain of offices.
The institute acts first, checking the form against the original documents, the Aadhaar number and the Aadhaar-linked bank details, then either recommending the case for sanction, rejecting it temporarily, or rejecting it permanently. The two words mean what they say. A temporary rejection is an instruction to correct the form and send it back; a permanent one shuts the student out of the scheme even if they reapply, and the standard operating procedure illustrates it at the sanctioning stage with an institute that is barred or blacklisted and a student who is not meritorious in the qualifying examination.
Who sanctions depends on where the student studies. Government institutes in Madhya Pradesh sanction for their own students, a designated government institute at district level sanctions for aided and private institutions in the state, and for institutions outside Madhya Pradesh the file goes to the Commissioner Higher Education, the Commissioner Medical Education or the Directorate of Technical Education depending on the course. The same procedure sets the clock: one working day for the institute to act, one working day for the sanctioning authority, two working days for the disbursing authority to digitally sign the e-payment order, and one working day for the bank to process the file.
Fine print
Terms & conditions
An MBBS admission carries an obligation the rest of the scheme does not. The portal FAQ requires a bond: a doctor trained at a government medical college contracts to serve 2 years in a rural area assured by the state and executes a bond of Rs 10 lakh to that effect, while for a private college the period is 5 years and the bond amount is Rs 25 lakh.
Two further conditions sit in the same document. Where a student is already receiving assistance from another state or central scheme, only the difference is payable here, so this is not a benefit that stacks. The second is a completion condition: the student is required to finish the course inside the time limit prescribed for it.
The department also attaches a caveat to its own explainer, noting that the document exists for convenience and that the instructions issued by the government and the nodal department are what hold authority. Where a college office and the FAQ disagree, the order wins.
Get help
Contact
The scheme home page lists the help desk as 0755-2660063 with dhehelpline.mmjky@mp.gov.in, and routes portal problems separately to mmjkyhelpline.dte@mp.gov.in. The registration page prints a different help desk number, 0755-2550762, against the same email address, so both are worth trying before assuming a line is dead.
Those lines answer questions about the scheme. They are the wrong place to chase one application. Under the standard operating procedure the institute holds the verification step and the physical file, so a case that has stopped moving is nearly always sitting with the college or with the sanctioning authority mapped to it, and no help desk can push it along from outside.
Source
Official links
Questions
MJSPY – FAQ
Frequently asked questions
From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)
Read this
Disclaimer
Disclaimer
Scheme details are compiled from myScheme, the Government of India’s official scheme-discovery platform, and are reproduced without alteration. Amounts, deadlines and eligibility change between cycles, so always confirm on the official links above before applying. Expertie does not process applications or charge fees.
References
Sources
- scheme's own introduction note – medhavikalyan.mp.gov.in
- myScheme record – myscheme.gov.in
- Guidelines – scholarshipportal.mp.nic.in